With FCE Academy for schools almost ready to publish on Google Play and iTunes, we thought we'd share what one of our reviewers told us. Chloe, an FCE teacher in Madrid, gave us the following feedback:

Congratulations on a really nice, clear and user friendly app! Great to have such short activities for metro journeys etc and FINALLY articles about interesting themes

— Chloe, Madrid

So what are the themes in FCE Academy for schools? They're listed below. In parts 1 to 3, your students can find out why the British drive on the left, how to buy headphones, when (and when not) to revise, who uses virtual reality in their day job, and when to watch whales.

We've presented a broad range of topics in a number of different genres and writing styles, to ensure your students are exposed to as much English as possible.

One of the first members of our Partner Programme, Andrew Girardin of the excellent blogs FCE Exam Tips and CAE Exam Tips has been kind enough to record a review of FCE Academy and share it on his YouTube channel. Thanks Andrew :-)

Click here for more info and a special discount on the full version: https://www.fceexamtips.com/articles/fce-academy In this video I review a great new app for Cambridge English: First students.

FCE Academy is great value, with 1,000 FCE-style questions for less than the price of a textbook. But we know some people like to try before they buy. So we came up with what we think is a great idea: FCE Academy Lite - a sample of our Use of English questions for absolutely nothing. Zilch. Big fat zero.

If a student wants to upgrade, they can (and if their teacher is in our Partner Programme they will probably get a nice discount, and we share the proceeds with the teacher). If not, at least they will have benefited from a few of our tests.

Interested? Head over to Google Play or iTunes to download. And don't forget to leave a review :-)

The app is great. It is simple to download and the exercises are very practical. I have an average mobile and yet it is very easy to use . Plus I’m not very tech savvy and I still found it easy to use.You can practise any time and don’t have to use your PC connected to the internet.Congratulations on such a useful app.

Here at FCE Academy, we have our very own catch-phrase: To Infinity and Beyond!

OK, we may not have thought of it, but we say it a lot.

On June 25th we said it more than a lot, because we finally published our brand new app, FCE Academy. You can get it right now from Google Play, In fact you definitely should - the more teachers and students get to see it the better.

We are so keen, we are offering it for free to anyone who contacts us to request a code. Absolutely free, no obligations, but we'd love it if you left a review. Preferably with five stars.

Our testing team - 22 teachers from around the world - have begun to feed back. Their thoughts so far have been overwhelmingly positive.

I loved how it was so easy to use - I think the students would love it.

— KB

(Don't forget these are not our friends and relations - these are ELT teachers we have met on Facebook and Twitter - so it's lovely to get good feedback from them.)

We're getting loads of great ideas for amendments to the basic app, and we're also getting a few bugs, of which we think Kate's impressive score for Part 4 is in the lead for most puzzling. Surely even teachers aren't that good?

Everything needs fixing before release, so we're working very hard at the moment.

Bang on schedule, we've given the FCE Academy app its first internal sign-off and sent it out to some real-life users -- ELT teachers from around the world -- to see what they think.

If you follow us on Twitter and Facebook (come on, why wouldn't you?), you'll have noticed us organising a big recruitment drive for teachers. Friends and family are OK, but we needed our app tested by real teachers out there teaching real students. We were delighted with the response -- we have people in Spain, Ireland, England, Israel, Pakistan and Brazil -- a wonderful mix and, most importantly, we've been impressed by their expertise and attention to detail since testing started.

Already, we have logged some minor bugs but nothing has come up (yet!) to cause us sleepless nights. Let's hope everyone's this smiley when development is complete and the app is live (June 14th) ...

P.S. If you'd like a preview, sign up here. We may have another round of testing later in the month.

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